# Eye of the Needle

**'Tense, marvellously detailed' - _The_ _Sunday Times_**  
  
**_Eye of the Needle_, Ken Follett's breakthrough international bestseller, is a heart-racing, exciting tale about the fate of the Second World War as it rests in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and one brave woman.  
  
Written when he was only twenty-seven, it launched the career of master storyteller Ken Follett, and was later adapted for the screen by Richard Marquand, starring Donald Sutherland.  
  
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**VICTORY HANGS IN THE BALANCE**  
  
1944\. In the weeks leading up to D-Day, the Allies are disguising their invasion plans with elaborate decoy ships and planes. If they can land a force on mainland Europe, they will gain the upper hand in a war that has ravaged the world for years, and can then take the fight to the Nazi menace.  
  
**A COLD-BLOODED KILLER**  
  
His weapon is the stiletto; his code name: The Needle. He is Hitler's prize undercover agent - a ruthless, professional murderer. In England, he uncovers the Allies' D-Day plans, but his cover is blown in the process.  
  
**A DEADLY CHASE**  
  
Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake and with MI5 on his tail, The Needle ruthlessly races to a U-boat that is waiting to convey him and his critical message to Germany. But he hasn't planned for a storm-battered island and the remarkable young woman who lives there . . .  
  
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'Really thrilling' - _The New York Times Book Review_  
  
'An absolutely terrific thriller, so pulse-pounding, so ingenious in its plotting and so frighteningly realistic that you simply cannot stop reading' - _Publishers Weekly_  
  
'Top-notch suspense . . . a terrific thriller . . . spellbinding' - _Miami Herald_  
  
'Great . . . one of the twelve best thrillers from the last fifty years' - _Rocky Mountain News_  
  
'Extraordinarily satisfying . . . a truly suspenseful novel . . . heart-stopping, nerve-freezing terror' - _Los Angeles Times_  
  
'A spy novel of the highest order' - _The Baltimore Sun_**

## Details

- **Price:** 0.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** Pan Macmillan
- **Type:** Ken Follett

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